If a bank gave away the information they hold on me, I'd face the risk of losing all my property.

If PerlMonks gives away all the information they hold on me, the worst thing that can possibly happen is that someone might pretend to be me on PerlMonks.

I really don't think the two scenarios are comparable.

Yes, storing passwords as plaintext was stupid. But let's get some perspective here. "Outrage" is a strange reaction to the leaking of passwords for a simple discussion forum; would it really affect your life significantly if someone else posted as Zen on PerlMonks? And anyone who was reusing the same password for more serious purposes elsewhere was being just as stupid.

In reply to Re^6: Status of Recent User Information Leak by Porculus
in thread Status of Recent User Information Leak by Co-Rion

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.